Natural Selection
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| The change in a species or population over time. | Evolution
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| What term refers to a group of organisms so similar to each other that they can breed & produce fertile offspring? | Species
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| Charles Darwin was a naturalist aboard what ship on a 5 year scientific journey? | HMS Beagle
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| Darwin studied many species of animals & plants found only on what islands? | Galapagos Islands
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| A process in which organisms possessing certain traits that make them better adapted to an environment tend to survive, reproduce, increase in number, and therefore, continue to thrive | Natural Selection
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| Any variation that aids an organism's chances for survival in its environment. | Adaptation
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| What is the name of Darwin's book? | On the Origin of Species
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| Species alive today have evolved with modifications from what? | Common Ancestors
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| The different traits of a species that is a mechanism of Natural Selection | Variation
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| In what year did Darwin published his groundbreaking book? | 1859
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| Darwin paid special attention to which two animals on the islands? | Finches and Tortoises
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| Evolution happens by _______________ | Chance
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| If a species is not adapted to environmental change, what two things could happen? | It can move or it will go extinct
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| Adaptations allow animals to respond to and survive changes to their ___________________ | Habitat
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| Organisms can choose to adapt. T/F | False
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| The term given that describes organisms that are best adapted to survive in their habitat | Survival of the Fittest
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| The process by which UNRELATED organisms evolve characteristics that are similar. | Convergent Evolution
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